OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Policy Studies is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Livestock and climate change frames and interaction strategies in East Africa: exploring tensions between adaptation and mitigation options	39
Infrastructures, processes of insertion and the everyday: towards a new dialogue in critical policy studies	28
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance	20
Social value in public policy	15
From ‘user-oriented’ to ‘holistic’: evolving contours of personalization in Norway’s activation policy between 2000 – 2023	15
The intellectual justification of sovereign power: representations of the Kurds in Turkish scholarship	12
A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system	12
Automating activation in Australia: a critical policy discourse analysis of the new employment services model	11
Narrative politics in public policy – legalizing cannabis	11
Handbook on critical political economy and public policy Handbook on critical political economy and public policy , edited by Christoph Scherrer, Ana Garcia, and Joscha	11
Mending Democracy: A response to our readers	9
Shifting responsibility in governing aging: municipal active aging discourses in Turkey	9
Political formulation of policy solutions	9
Policy ecology as concept and method	8
Fear of the other: vulnerabilization, social empathy, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	7
Democratizing science is an urgent, collective, and continuous project: expanding the boundaries of critical policy studies	7
Contested integration: hegemony projects in the field of education in Austria	7
Radical Critical Policy Studies: Situating Racialized Personhood within Decolonizing Policy, Knowledge Production, Self-Reflexivity & Positionality/Social-Location	7
The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security The Government of Emergency – Vital Systems, Expertise and the Politics of Security ,	7
Non-human policy worlds: an exploration of the Norwegian research and higher education policy	6
Research methods in deliberative democracy Research methods in deliberative democracy , edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça,	6
Governing an elusive and ungovernable crisis: a pragmatist-constructivist perspective	6
Assembling good citizenship under Korean COVID-19 surveillance	6
Wild policy: Indigeneity and the unruly logics of intervention	6
Desired or contested futures? Competing discourse-coalitions for sustainable aviation in Sweden	6

Brazil and China going global: emerging issues and questions to explore knowledge and policy transfers	6
Beyond the powers of seduction: tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance	5
Welfare justifications and responsibility in political decision making - The case of Nudging*	5
Constructing the data economy: tracing expectations of value creation in policy documents	5
’Governing climate change in Southeast Asia: critical perspectives’	5
On the social relevance of Critical Policy Studies in times of turmoil	5
Advancing critical discourse analysis of Indigenous consultations: Argument Continuity v. epistemic vigilance	5
School disengagement as a policy problem: a frame analysis	5
Depoliticization and the changing boundaries of governance in Japan	5
Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature	4
Erased: ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia an open letter from women of public affairs education	4
What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy	4
Hayek’s theory of mind and the origins of the neoliberal critique of modern liberalism	4
The pandemic within: policy making for a better world	4
Power and participation in the field of radioactive waste disposal	4
Decolonizing the temporal and relational assumptions in contemporary science and science policies	3
A critique of the moral economy of pharmaceutical development	3
Aboriginal plant foods policy in Australia: a critical discourse analysis	3
Exploring ethical space in land use planning	3
Is critical policy inquiry a legacy of Harold Lasswell?, by Douglas Torgerson, United States of America, Edward Elgar, 2024, 202 pp., (Hardback) $125. ISBN: 9781788976008	3
The logic of responsibilisation: a critical discourse analysis of the juvenile offenders law in Chile	3
Performing like a state? State-ness, sovereignty and the ‘illegal’ immigrant	3
‘Exposing ourselves to ourselves’: observations on the contextual principle	3